Gentoo: Ten Years Emerge.
Gentoo, the most popular source based distribution, has turned ten years old. What benefits does a such a system provide over its binary distros? As Linux becomes more and more popular, is there still a place for source based distros? more...

Sun releases Solaris 10 10/09.
Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of the 10/09 update for its Solaris 10 operating system (OS). The latest release includes a number of bug fixes, feature updates and expanded support for new processors. more...

Linux-based home NAS boasts 5-18 Watt power consumption.
Iomega announced a Linux-based, dual-drive networked attached storage (NAS) appliance for the home-business and consumer market. The Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 is available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, and offers RAID 1 support, 5-18 Watt power consumption, and a DLNA/UPnP media server. more...

Hulu Desktop Brings Remote-Controlled Streaming to Linux.
Linux: Hulu has taken their designed-for-widescreen, remote-friendly Desktop viewer and released it for Linux-powered systems, giving anyone with an open-source media center or Linux laptop an easier way to watch streaming video clips and movies on their much bigger screen. more... and Hulu Desktop Comes to Linux.

Arora Is an Open-Source Browser with Out-of-the-Box Ad Blocking.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Arora is a free, cross-platform web browser built on WebKit (the engine that powers Safari and Chrome) that we've mentioned once before, but its latest release includes some interesting new features by default, including built-in support for ad blocking. more...

T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger data loss is bad for the cloud.
T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger have told Sidekick users who have been suffering for a data outage this week that their data is gone for good. So far, tech punditry's read on this massive, high-profile data loss is that it's a black eye for "the cloud." For once, the consensus is spot-on. more...

q4wine 0.113 has been released.
Finally, after many months of development, testing and bugfixing a new version of q4wine has been released. q4wine is a wine configuration and management utility written in QT. more...

eyeOS.
eyeOS is an open source web desktop following the cloud computing concept that leverages collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit. It includes a Desktop environment with 67 applications and system utilities. It is accessible by portable devices via its mobile front end. more... and web site.

Misc.
Oracle to 'out-Sun' Sun on hardware and software.
Kernel Log - Improved USB 3. 0 support, X.org drivers to move back into X Server.
Nokia N900 operating system gets official Qt port.
Nanny Linux: Parental Controls on Little Tuxes.
Moblin v2.0 ships, appears on Dell netbook.
ASUS publishes Eee PC Linux source code.
Microsoft reveals time-based licensing model.

How To Tips.

How To Delete Files Securely In Nautilus.
How To Wrapper Script for vmware commands.
How To Recover deleted files in linux with Photorec.
How To Meld for Visual Diffs.
How To Install or Upgrade to the latest version of Banshee in Ubuntu.
How To Connect iPhone/iPod Touch (Using USB) in Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy.
How To Learn Linux, 101: File and directory management.

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